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Category Archives: Security

Is Mozilla going social?

December 25, 2007 – 4:20 pm

I just saw a RWW post about Mozilla’s newest labs experiment.
The new project, which is called Weave, promises to
“focus on finding ways to enhance the Firefox user experience, increase user control over personal information, and provide new opportunities for developers to build innovative online experiences”.
They want to build an infrastructure to enable users to share [...]

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reCAPTCHA for the win.

November 24, 2007 – 3:41 pm

I have implemented reCAPTCHA to prevent spammers from stealing my PageRank votes.

reCAPTCHA is cool because each time you fill one out, you are digitizing an old book in the process.
You can read more about it here: http://recaptcha.net/learnmore.html
Try it out below.

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UNIX: Password Smarts

May 17, 2007 – 9:58 pm

From UNIX For Dummies:
Like every UNIX user, you should have a password. You can get along without a password only under these circumstances:

You keep the computer in a locked, windowless room to which you have the only key, and it’s not connected to any network.

You don’t mind whether unruly 14-year-olds borrow your account and randomly [...]

By me | Also posted in Books, Computers, Information, Instructions, Knowledge, Passwords, Programming, Reference, UNIX | Comments (0)
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